PICTURE FILM IMPORTS.
The strong position held by America in the New Zealand motion picture trade is shown by the Government Statistician in his returns of imports for 1926. The total value of the films imported was £215,092, and of that sum £192,802 went to the United States, £216 to Canada, £16,894 to Great Britain, £5493 to Australia, £1306 to Germany, £9G7 to Fiance, and £300 to New Zealand itself. Austria and Switzerland weer contributors, their quota being £114. There is a Id per lineal foot duty under the general tariff, but British films are free. The total lineal feet of pictures imported was 11,220,875 feet, and of this 10,632,093 feet came to Wellington. The quantities imported included 9,974,731 feet from the United States, 797,829 feet from the United Kingdom, 243.118 feet from Australia,
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 127, 2 June 1927, Page 11
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139PICTURE FILM IMPORTS. Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 127, 2 June 1927, Page 11
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